The American Law Register, Volume 52The Department, 1904 - Electronic journals |
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Page 70
... Treaty ; Great Britain and The Hague Mar- riage Law Convention , 1902 ; Foreign Judgments ; and General Aver- age . LAW STUDENT'S HELPER . Claims Against the United States Government . Wm . E. Richardson . The paper sets forth clearly ...
... Treaty ; Great Britain and The Hague Mar- riage Law Convention , 1902 ; Foreign Judgments ; and General Aver- age . LAW STUDENT'S HELPER . Claims Against the United States Government . Wm . E. Richardson . The paper sets forth clearly ...
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... treaties concerning citizenship are duly noted . The first part of the work deals with citizenship by birth , both in the United States and abroad , of children born to our citizens . Part II discusses naturalization , which is treated ...
... treaties concerning citizenship are duly noted . The first part of the work deals with citizenship by birth , both in the United States and abroad , of children born to our citizens . Part II discusses naturalization , which is treated ...
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... treaty , by conquest , by special act of Congress , and by admission of territory to statehood . The author of this ... treaties with foreign powers relative to the same questions . On the whole , this book has a useful mission and will ...
... treaty , by conquest , by special act of Congress , and by admission of territory to statehood . The author of this ... treaties with foreign powers relative to the same questions . On the whole , this book has a useful mission and will ...
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... treaty and an enormous ransom . " This treaty was oral and stipulated merely the terms of the peace , but a few years afterwards a written treaty of alliance and commerce was entered into between Oleg and Leo VI . We are indebted to ...
... treaty and an enormous ransom . " This treaty was oral and stipulated merely the terms of the peace , but a few years afterwards a written treaty of alliance and commerce was entered into between Oleg and Leo VI . We are indebted to ...
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... treaty makers sent by Oleg . Ten are Norman and three Slavonic . . The following excerpts are material to the present inquiry : Preamble : " We , native born Russians deputized by the Grand Prince of Russia and by all the illustrious ...
... treaty makers sent by Oleg . Ten are Norman and three Slavonic . . The following excerpts are material to the present inquiry : Preamble : " We , native born Russians deputized by the Grand Prince of Russia and by all the illustrious ...
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Page 4 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person, who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government: and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 264 - The government of New Granada guarantees to the government of the United States that the right of way or transit across the .Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the government and citizens of the United States...
Page 27 - Claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine "all claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 599 - When parties have deliberately put their engagements into writing, in such terms as import a legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of such engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, was reduced to writing...
Page 603 - Where parties, without any fraud or mistake, have deliberately put their engagements in writing, the law declares the writing to be not only the best, but the only, evidence of their agreement.
Page 473 - Debts of the bankrupt may be proved and allowed against his estate which are (1) a fixed liability, as evidenced by a judgment or an instrument in writing, absolutely owing at the time of the filing of the petition against him, whether then payable or not, with any interest thereon which would have been recoverable at that date or with a rebate of interest upon such as were not then payable and did not bear interest...
Page 199 - A charity, in a legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their...
Page 776 - A cause of action arising out of the contract or transaction, set forth in the complaint as the foundation of the plaintiff's claim, or connected with the subject of the action.
Page 286 - ... articles of this treaty, the United States guarantee, positively and efficaciously, to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus...
Page 19 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men, in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.